REEDS, LAKE NIPISSING

This is another image of our short trip on Lake Nipissing. It looks like a pen and ink over a watercolour wash. Hope you like it.

FALL EVENING, LAKE NIPISSING

My friend Gerry invited me on a little photo excursion on Lake Nipissing. it was a pity that the weather did not cooperate but I was able to get a few nice images. So we will try again next week.

EARLY MORNING

The strength of this image is its simplicity. I always try to reduce my pictures to some very basic design  elements as in this image with its lines and pattern of the red posts. Also I like the definition of Andreas Feininger, who said that a good photograph should have "stopping power". It is the quality which makes an image visually interesting.
Rob Greenfield wrote to remind me to mention that our show, Sky and Water, will run until the 30th of October. So if you are in the Callander area go and have a look.

GARDEN, ELORA, ON

I made this image a few weeks ago while visiting the very picturesque town of Elora in Southern Ontario. I also like to thank Rob for his comment about the show in Callander. The opening was well attended actually, considering the beautiful weekend. So thanks to everybody who came out to see our work.

MAPLE, RIDEAU HALL

Today I am almost ready with the final preparations for the Sky and Water exhibition. Rob was surprised I had never visited Rideau Hall. Well not completely true, I toured the building many years ago with a group of my students however it was mid winter so I did not walk the grounds. This year's walk in the park was a first for me.

FOUNTAIN, RIDEAU HALL, OTTAWA

This was my first visit to Rideau Hall, the residence of the Governor General of Canada. I liked this fountain but preferred the black and white image over a full colour picture, which lacked visual impact.

SKY & WATER EXHIBITION

It has been a very frustrating week for Claire and myself. First opening the exhibition was delayed then we were assured that the gallery would provide us with printed invitations. Well we are still waiting but we suspect that it will be too late to mail them. So we are somewhat anxious if people will actually attend our opening. Anyway enough complaining, the show looks great and we hope to see many of you at the opening next Saturday. 

WALL, AYLMER, QC

Just the blue line is what attracted me to this subject. The final image reminds me of some of the paintings by the Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies, a painter I really admired in my younger art college days.

VICTORIA CAFE, ALMONTE

Today I was trying out a variety of colour to black and white actions. I am interested to see which actions would work in Photoshop Elements. In the new version of Elements you can use actions created in the full versions of Photoshop. There are a wide variety of actions you can download from the net but, I discovered, that not all actions will work. This image was created using an action called LAB action. I liked the result the overall sepia tone is just right and I particularly enjoy the rich tones of this picture.

AYLMER, QC

At last another posting, again it has been a crazy time for me. Last week I finally finished framing all my pictures then I had to leave for Ottawa again for a short family visit. happily I did have some time to spare so i could roam around taking pictures. Anonymous asked for some information about the exhibition in Callander. Well, the show is open even though the official opening is not until the 19th of September. So if you want to attend the opening you are hereby invited or you can just go and enjoy the pictures now.

GETTING READY

Just getting all the pictures ready for our show in Callander. I still have to finish some matting and framing then ready to hang the show next week. I will post more detailed information in acouple of days.

NEAR POWASSAN, ONTARIO

I could not resist posting another wildflower image. I wonder what Vincent van Gogh would have made of this view.

WILDFLOWERS

Finally I spent yesterday afternoon taking pictures. This time of the Summer is very beautiful with the landscape fulls of colour from all the wildflowers. My wife gathers a large bouquet of grasses, goldenrod, tansy and asters, which, when dried, will be a reminder of Summer in the long Winter season.

HARLEQUIN

This Summer has been a very busy time for me. First the renovations downstairs followed by a variety of visitors and to top it off I am working on a show at the Alex Dufresne Gallery in Callander Ontario. This picture is actually for our friend Linda. The little sculpture was made by an old friend Mieke Coppens Frehe. My sister brought it for me from Holland where I had left it. Mieke made this harlequin after a trip we had made with a group of fellow students through France in the Summer of 1958.It was a very memorable trip and this piece was made after we visited Vaison la Romaine in the south of France. The harlequin was the "master of ceremony" at the finale of a great festival in the town, which ended in the old Roman amphitheatre.

SUMMER REFLECTION

I took this picture a few days ago along a trail close to my home. Looking at the image on the computer I started to just play around with it and here is the result. Hope you like it.

EARTH ART

I took this picture yesterday afternoon at the catchment pond at the end of the new parking lots. I don't know the function of the small dam but it reminded me of work the earth land artist Robert Smithson, who made some very famous "landscape as an object" art in the seventies.

PUPPETS UP!

Well, I promise, this is my last puppet image for this year. I can't say I won't post another one next year because I enjoyed the festival so much that, the next time, I will go back for the full weekend. I would like to thank Highton Ridley for becoming a follower of my blog.

AGAIN THE ALMONTE PUPPET FESTIVAL

I decided to visit the International Puppet Festival in Almonte. It looks to be a fun weekend.

ELORA GORGE

On Saturday we visited Elora. It is of course very much a tourist destination but definitely worth visiting. We had a drink on the deck overlooking this spectacular gorge.

WHEAT FIELD, ST.JACOBS, ONTARIO

I just returned from a trip to Southern Ontario. This picture was made just outside the famous farmers market in St. Jacobs.